Personally, the most important trait I look for when hiring programmers is desire to learn. It’s a natural proxy for both motivation and problem solving.
It’s one thing if we are talking about a Dilbert-level “we are going to rewrite our system in X” but learning something new to support an existing system that performs well? At worst it’s good resume material and at best it should be interesting enough to expand how you think about coding.
It’s one thing if we are talking about a Dilbert-level “we are going to rewrite our system in X” but learning something new to support an existing system that performs well? At worst it’s good resume material and at best it should be interesting enough to expand how you think about coding.
Not wanting to learn it at all would be odd.
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